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Linda Woodhead (Linda Jane Pauline Woodhead) was born on 15 February, 1964 in Taunton, Somerset, England, is an A british sociologist. Discover Linda Woodhead's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Born 15 February, 1964
Birthday 15 February
Birthplace Taunton, Somerset, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1964

Linda Jane Pauline Woodhead (born 15 February 1964) is a British sociologist of religion and scholar of religious studies at King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

1980

She is best known for her work on religious change since the 1980s, and for initiating public debates about faith.

She has been described by Matthew Taylor, head of the Royal Society of Arts, as "one of the world's leading experts on religion".

Since 2022, Woodhead has been the FD Maurice Professor and Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London.

1985

She studied Theology and Religious Studies at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was awarded Double First Class Honours in 1985, receiving the MA by conversion in 1989.

1988

Woodhead undertook her first post as Tutor in Doctrine and Ethics at Ripon College Cuddesdon Oxford (1988–1992).

1992

In 1992, she moved to Lancaster University.

2004

An Introduction to Christianity (Cambridge University Press 2004), Christianity: a very short introduction (ISBN 9780192803221) (Oxford University Press 2005), and Religions in the Modern World (Routledge 2nd ed. 2009) consider the development of religions over time by examining how they confirm or challenge power relations in wider society.

Using this approach Woodhead explains why churches have declined in modern Europe but not elsewhere.

The Spiritual Revolution (ISBN 9781405119597) (co-written with Paul Heelas; Blackwell Publishing 2005) is based on the 'Kendal Project' and documented the growth of alternative spirituality and the relative decline of churches and chapels.

In Religion and Change in Modern Britain (ISBN 9780415575812) (co-edited with Rebecca Catto, Routledge 2012) and Everyday Lived Islam in Europe (co-edited with Nadia Jeldtoft et al., Ashgate 2013) Woodhead expanded this approach by showing how new 'post-confessional' ways of being religious have eclipsed a traditional 'Reformation style' of religion in Britain and more widely since the late 1980s.

Woodhead's work on religion, identity, and power is developed in articles on religion and gender, Muslim veiling controversies, governance of religious diversity, religion and politics, religion and law.

2006

Prior to this, she was Professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University from 2006 to 2021.

2007

Furthermore, from 2007 to 2012, she was director of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme.

Woodhead was born in Taunton and grew up in rural Somerset.

She attended Bishop Fox's comprehensive school and Richard Huish Sixth Form College in Taunton.

Woodhead has been married to Alexander Mercer since 2007 and lives between Glasgow and Lancaster.

She was previously married to Alan Billings, the current South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

Woodhead is currently the Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London.

In 2007, Woodhead was appointed Director of the £12m Religion and Society research programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council.

This initiative funded 265 academics and researchers from 29 different disciplines working on 75 separate research projects and other initiatives including British Religion in Numbers and RadicalisationResearch.org.

2009

She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Uppsala University in 2009 and also a Doctor of Letters.

2011

Woodhead co-founded the Westminster Faith Debates with former Home Secretary Charles Clarke in 2011.

The debates were originally created to publicise findings from the Religion and Society programme, but have since become an annual series.

They bring researchers into conversation with prominent figures in public life and have included former Prime Minister Tony Blair, ethnologist and atheist author Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

The debates have been covered by BBC Radio, LBC, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, the Evening Standard and other UK and international media.

Woodhead has carried out empirical research around the world.

She has studied neo-Hinduism, Christianity, spirituality, and Islam in Europe.

Her work examines the relationship between religions and social change, especially in modern times.

Her conceptual approach to religion is systematised in A Sociology of Religious Emotion (co-authored with Ole Riis, Oxford University Press 2011) in a schema which integrates religion's bodily, ritual, emotional and cognitive dimensions.

Woodhead is a regular feature and comment writer on religion for The Tablet magazine and The Guardian and The Observer newspapers.

She has appeared on BBC One's The Big Questions and BBC Radio 4 programmes including PM, Thought for the Day, Analysis and Thinking Allowed.

She has written a major report for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

2013

She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to higher education.

In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).

She was invited to the World Economic Forum summit in Davos in 2013.